Privacy General Consent and Disclosure Statement

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Before completing your application for admission, you should read the following. By signing and returning your application form, you are acknowledging that you understand and accept all terms and conditions. 

 Our Commitment To Privacy

The University is committed to ensure that your privacy is protected.  Under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), the University must take all reasonable steps to ensure that its collection, use, disclosure and handling of your personal and health information complies with these laws.  Read the University's Privacy Policy here, or call 1300 367 869 (within Australia), or +61.2.4221 3218 (from overseas). 

 Consent

I hereby undertake to abide by the University of Wollongong Act 1989 and with the By Laws and Rules of the University. I understand that UOW may have a need to verify the information I have supplied and thus it may exchange data with other institutions for this purpose. I further understand that UOW deals with regulatory bodies and also includes a number of separate entities, any of which may be granted all or part of this information to assist students in their work at UOW.

 Disclosure

The information provided may be used for (but not limited to) the following purposes and or reasonably related purposes:

  1. Promotion of the UOW’s resources, of scholarships, research, free enquiry, the interaction of research and teaching, and academic excellence;
  2. The provision of facilities for education and research, having particular regard to the needs of the Illawarra region;
  3. The encouragement of the dissemination, advancement, development and application of knowledge informed by free enquiry;
  4. The provision of course of study or instruction across a range of fields, and the carrying out of research to meet the needs of the community;
  5. The participation in public discourse;
  6. The conferring of degrees, including those of Bachelor, Master and Doctor and the awarding of diploma’s certificates and other awards;
  7. The provision of teaching and learning that engages with advanced knowledge and inquiry;
  8. The development of governance, procedural rules, admission policies; and
  9. Financial arrangements and quality assurance processes that are sufficient to ensure the integrity of UOW’s academic programs.

The information provided may be used, for (but not limited to) the following functions and or reasonably related purposes to these functions of UOW, as follows:

 Commercial Functions

UOW’s commercial functions comprising the commercial exploitation or development for UOW’s benefit of any facility resource or property of UOW’s, or in which UOW has a right or interest (including for example study research, knowledge and intellectual property and the practical application of study, research, knowledge and intellectual property), whether alone or with others.

 Other Services Such As Sporting or Cultural
  1. UOW’s cultural, sporting, professional, technical and vocational services to the community; and
  2. UOW’s general and ancillary functions as may be necessary or convenient to complement or be incidental for enabling or assisting UOW to promote the interests of UOW.
 Functional Areas

The functions of UOW may be exercised within or outside of New South Wales and/or Australia.

 Definitions

For the purposes of obtaining consent and providing disclosure, UOW means the University of Wollongong and includes all the associations and controlled entities of the University of Wollongong.

For the purposes of this policy document, ‘student’ means any person who is a member of the public and not an employee of UOW, and entitled to protection under current privacy legislation in Australia.

 Related Legislation

This privacy policy response is an integrated response to other related legislation this includes the following:

  • Freedom of Information Act 1989
  • ICAC Act 1988
  • Protected Disclosures Act 1994
  • State Records Act 1998; and
  • University of Wollongong Act 1989
  • The By Laws and Rules of the University. 
 Commonwealth Informed Consent Statement

I understand that the:

  • University of Wollongong is collecting the information in this form for the purpose of assessing my entitlement to Commonwealth assistance under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 and allocation of Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number (CHESSN) to me;
  • University of Wollongong will disclose this information to the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) for those purposes;
  • DEST will store the information securely in the Higher Education Management System;
  • DEST may disclose the information to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO); and
  • University of Wollongong and DEST will not otherwise disclose the information without my consent unless required or authorised by law.